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Heya!

I thought I should update y'all...not anything super cool has been happening, but quand même a little update never hurts. The following pictures should have been added previously, but they weren't. There's Natalie (march 11) at Cité de l'Espace, the premium air and space museum in France, Abbey and I (march 19) and a view of the canal in Narbonne (march 16).

Since last Tuesday..what happened..hmm. Last Wednesday I played against the official U16 team of the Midi-Pyrenées region, that's the game I went to. It was chilly and horizontal rain and kind of cold, and the score was 2-2. Half of the girls play at TFC so I recongnized them. Then on Sunday I went with the 2nd team all the way to Nîmes and played a club called Redesson (I think it's a town outside of Nîmes), we lost 4 - 1 and it was kinda of a disaster, and it was their home field and they had lots of fans. But I played defense in the 2nd half, here's the link if you wanna read what the coach thought (and you can see my name!) : http://www.tfc.info/fr/Actualite/101002/Dernieres_news/38730/D3_Feminines_Redessan_TFC
hahah he put a é in my last name! How French! It was a bit fun, the 13 girls were the best ones, and the 4 hour bus ride was alright, we had lunch in Montpellier before the game. It was raining on the ride home on sunday, so I rode an hour on my bike 3 times in the rain last week, ugh. The time change this weekend has brought much welcomed warmth and sunshine, so that's good. Last Saturday the weather was absolutely gorgeous here, like in the 70s and people out having fun around the city, I guess it'd been about a month since I had been in the middle of town on a Saturday afternoon, definitely changes than the normal school day crowd.
In history class at the moment we are learning about totalitariansim, and 3 regimes, stalinisme, fascisme in Italie and nazisme. So today I wrote 4 pages about stalinisme for a test. Then that's all the class I had because all the other teachers were gone for some reason. In the afternoon I went to the jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire march, never been to one before, pretty interesting. Hundreds of ppl my age in the place du capitole chanting and marching around. quel manifestation!
So I'm switching host familes next friday at 5:30pm. Kind of excited and sad at the same time. My new house acutally has a Toulouse adress (woah!!) and is faster to get to. But as soon as I move there, I know that the rest of the time in France will just zooom by. Band camp for a week, the the 11 day Euro rotary bus trip, then my parents come, then last rotary weekend. I won't be alone with them till June! Oh well, this is the best time of the year and won't miss out on any oppurtunity.
Here are some more pics:
Montpellier
On the île de ferou (sp). The was one of the windiest situations I've ever been in!!
An obelisque in Marseille that was next to our hotel
the sign at school that was recently put up that says that no food or drinks are allowed. I don't know why I took a picture of it, but I did.

Sarah and I and our chubby faces in the mall last saturday. We discovered new bus routes in our quest to go to H&M! Be proud!
So yesterday was Day 1 of swimming in PE class. Guess who was number 1 in volleyball and got 20 out of 20? the oh so unattainable grade?? ME! Thank you for the American school system and Edison 8th grade volleyball for making me sufficiently coordianted in many things! I felt bad, but the teacher actually ranked everyone in the class to give out grades. Number one baby! USA #2 was #2. Swimming was actually really fun and a bondin experience, everyone changing into suits together. Only 13 out of the class of 23 actually did it, everyone else had "excuses". We didn't swim for that long, but we got divided into groups and swam laps until the time was up. PE is part of the Bac, so you pick sports you are good at, so your grade out of 20 is actually based upon how fast you can swim 3 different 50s of different strokes, crazy. Then we had a bac blanc of SVT and physiques. Tuesday night was our 2nd conseil de classe, where the delegates and teachers discuss each student and the grades and the class. Our class is apparantly too lazy and doesn't work hard enough, and complains too much. The next morning they read who got appreciations for being a good student etc., and it was apparent which students were told that they would have to do première again, only 2 in my class. That's too bad. For my last weekend here, my host mom is letting me have my friends over to spend the night! It should be fun.

Time to go to bed!
Bisous!
Liz